Comments on: A 30,000-Foot Look at Real Estate Traffic Online

By: Mary Pope-Handy

Mary Pope-Handy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:38:40 +0000

Interesting post. The decline in web traffic is in line with the decline in sales. I suspect that when the market improves, so will the web traffic.

By: Teresa Boardman

Teresa Boardman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:00:07 +0000

oh, I really like your post.

By: Teresa Boardman

Teresa Boardman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:55:57 +0000

Maybe real estate is local, maybe the big national web sites will lose traction and local web sites will gain.

By: Erik Hersman

Erik Hersman — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:16:28 +0000

Nice summary Shaun. That’s why I think we’ll see the size of the pie grow in the future. We haven’t really tapped into the “internet generation” yet. There will be another boom when that happens.

By: Shaun McLane

Shaun McLane — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:56 +0000

I think maybe we’re all a little ahead of ourselves. I’m guessing all the traffic is just bloggers visiting other bloggers.

My clients. for the most part, are not as into the internet as we think they are. For an example, 37signals.com has amazing tools that I use to track my clients. One of the tools is BackPackit. I LOVE this service. It gives me a place to put everything related to a transaction together in one place, and I can share it with the client so they have up-to-the-second info on their listing/sale. The sharing part is simple…I email them a link – that’s it. Funny thing is, out of 20 or so clients I have set this up for, only ONE has actually used it. WTF? I pitch this pretty heavy in my presentation, and even demo it on my laptop. They get excited, and say how great it is, but never end up using it.

My over-worded point is, we’re in this internet game day in and day out. We’re very current with trends and practices, but sadly, our clients (generalization) are not. So maybe as the next generation grows, we’ll see better stats, and won’t be sharing as much of the pie. My 12 year old niece has far superior internet skills than the majority of people I currently work with.

By: Heidi Aspinwall

Heidi Aspinwall — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:01:29 +0000

Thanks for the dynamic figures. It is great to see how the online real estate trends are working out. It seemed to me as I was reading your report that more real estate related websites are emerging on the web everyday; maybe the use has spread out taking some users from the bigger sites. I’ll keep watching to see…

By: john

john — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:51:37 +0000

Thanks for the information and research. I’m sure the cycle will come back and there will be another boom so to speak online. It’s interesting how there are now so many online companies that allow you to see home prices, sales, market time, school info, demographics and so on. There will be some consolidation I’m sure but I still think that online is the key to any industry, and certainly the real estate market.